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Iain Angus Dec 6, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Since leaving Black Marble Iain is blogging at http://sixfortyfour.wordpress.com
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DefaultSiteCollectionTermStore == null
Iain Angus Aug 27, 2010 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Between writing the previous post about provisioning Managed Metadata fields declaratively we decided to remove the hard-coded term store name shown below
var termStore = session.TermStores["Managed Metadata Service"];
and replace it with
TermStore termStore = session.DefaultSiteCollectionTermStore;
We found …

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Declaratively Provision Managed Metadata Column in SharePoint 2010
Iain Angus Aug 24, 2010 · 2 min read · SharePoint Sharepoint ·
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As part of a project I have been working on we wanted to assign categories to items in SharePoint 2010 and decided to use Managed Metadata. Wictor Wilén has a good post explaining what Managed Metadata is and how to set it up. Like Wictor, I also prefer to provision site columns and content types using a combination of …
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WCF Data Services at NEBytes
Iain Angus Jun 18, 2010 · 1 min read · WCF Data Services ·
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Many thanks to everyone who came to Newcastle to see my talk on WCF Data Services, managed to get through all my demos by overrunning a little bit! I’d also like to thank Ben, Jonathon and Damien for their hospitality and help. NEBytes is great user group and I’d recommend anyone who can attend to do so.
During the …

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Developer Day Scotland 2010
Iain Angus May 11, 2010 · 1 min read · DDD Events ·
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Big thank you to everyone who attended my talk on WCF Data Services, and a big thank you to the organisers for another excellent event.
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The system cannot find the file specified. (2147942402, 80070002)
Iain Angus Mar 25, 2010 · 1 min read · Tech Tips Visual Studio ·
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After updating the TFS 2010 client from Beta2 to RC on my SharePoint development machine I found that I couldn’t control IIS using IISRESET, with a message usually of the following format…
Attempting stop…
Stop attempt failed.
The system cannot find the file specified. (214794202, 80070002)
As anyone who does …

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Windows Azure - Compute Hours Equals Deployed Hours
Iain Angus Feb 16, 2010 · 1 min read · Azure ·
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I signed up for the Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special. You get 25 hours of a small compute instance per month which is more than enough for my current development needs. I checked the billing after a couple of days and was surprised to see that I had used 4 hours of compute time. I'd only deployed a test …
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Windows Azure Tools and SDK 1.1 Released
Iain Angus Feb 3, 2010 · 1 min read · Azure ·
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To coincide with commercial launch the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio have been updated...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5664019e-6860-4c33-9843-4eb40b297ab6&displaylang=en
The Azure Team blog has a post on what is new... …

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Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint 2007 "Open with Windows Explorer"
Iain Angus Aug 20, 2009 · 1 min read · SharePoint ·
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On my SharePoint 2007 W2K8 development VM, I noticed that "Open with Windows Explorer" wasn't working. Aha, I thought, I'll just go and start the WebClient service, which is what you did on W2K3. Turns out you need to add the "Desktop Experience" feature to add the WebClient service.

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comexception (0x80004005): cannot complete this action when deploying a SharePoint MasterPage as a feature
Iain Angus Aug 5, 2009 · 2 min read · SharePoint ·
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I've been working on deploying SharePoint MasterPages and PageLayouts as a feature. There are a lot of good posts out there on how to do this. Everything went ok, the feature deployed and activated fine, the page was approved and I could specify the masterpage to be used. I checked to see how the site looked and all …
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